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Vivaldi Browser: Must-have extensions for developers

Constantine on July 14, 2024

Having the right tools can help a lot in web development. Vivaldi is flexible and customizable, which makes it a good choice for developers who wan...
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OneTab

It may not be as convenient, but vivaldi already gives you the option to save all open tabs to a session. This comes with the advantage that it restores tab stacks and is accessible from the quick command box.

Eversync

This is cool for people who use different browsers across devices, but if you use vivaldi everywhere, the built-in sync already does this as well.

Link Preview

This one is super cool; I'm absolutely installing it :)

StayFocusd

This is also really cool; I used to have a similar extension a while ago but ended up not using it much out of habit.

RescueTime

This one is also kinda cool; but I would recommend ActivityWatch instead, which is a program you run on your computer that does this for open windows and saves its data to a disk so you can sync it with your sync tool of choice.

It also offers a web interface with lots of features and a json export for anyone hardcore enough to want to process their own time data.

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Opera is still better for me. :)

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Does Opera have any features vivaldi doesn't have? I stopped using it years ago after it had gone from one of the most powerful browsers with opera 12 to a near-featureless chromium fork with opera 15; at the time, vivaldi was basically just all of opera 12's features on a chromium browser.

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Opera Developer allows you to use run AI models locally in the browser sidebar, no internet required.

Plus, although Opera doesn't have some features of Vivaldi, I still prefer it because it does what I need and Vivaldi's features are just too cluttered for me.

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Nishad Azad

Sounds Crazy

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oggo

All this sounds fine and cool, but why not using simply chrome? What are the vivaldi advantages compared to chrome?

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Tab stacks, workspaces, sessions, notes, tab tiling, quick command box, built in QR generator, multiple speed dial tabs, built in calendar, built in email, built in rss reader, built in website translation, built in ad/tracker blocker, encrypted sync, command chains, and a bunch more.

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Ingo Steinke, web developer

or better yet, Chromium without proprietary commercial extension? I have been using Vivaldi as an alternative to Firefox which didn't run quickly on my mobile. Vivaldi allowed me to sync my history etc. between mobile and desktop. I don't use this feature anymore, but I still stick to Vivaldi for its higher customizability compared to Chromium/Chrome/Edge. But, like Firefox and Chrome, the teams keeps adding more and more features that get in my way until I turn them off, so I will probably go back to Chromium or Firefox some time.

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Kinda curious: what features did vivaldi add that actively get in your way? I found most of the stuff can easily be ignored if you don't want it; the only recent thing I can think of is the addition of the workspace picker to the task bar which would take up space needlessly if you don't use them, but that's about it.

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Ingo Steinke, web developer • Edited
  • bloated context menu
  • open in tab stack (accidentally clicked/tabbed instead of new tab)
  • save to note
  • side bar
  • address bar history search preferring irrelevant deep links from history instead of bookmarked home pages
  • layout shift in new Vivaldi context menu: entries that were initially visible become hidden in behind a scroll arrow before I can click on them
  • unintuitive menu text or rather a cross-browser inconsistency: "open in new tab" means "open in background tab" in Chromium but means open and focus in Vivaldi
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I've not had any issues since the update. I like it. :D

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Bhaskar Ghale

Any Arc users here?

Given the recent gaffes of LastPass, could you recommend other alternatives?

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Constantine

Maybe Bitwarden? A lot of people recommend it

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Martin Baun

Second BitWarden, it's one of the most secure and very well priced too!